Ocean Village Cruises Reviews

It is a shame that you had a poor experience, we did the trip in June for 2 weeks. The food and cleanliness were excellent. Although the trips do look expensive they are excellent- you are always well looked after. I hope that this does not put you off, it really is a great ship.

I also cruised in June, then august, then october ! I agree re entertainment and staff BUT not with the comment re overall cleanliness. It is one of the few ships with a consistent policy of hand cleansing for passengers before entering the resturants. P&O are very lax (hence all the recent reports of norovirus on various ships recently on these reviews) and so are Princess and NCL. The ship was cleaned thouroughly during the night (yes I was up !!) and although public toilets could sometimes do with more frequent cleaning this was really up to mess (paper towels not in the bins provided)generated by lax passengers. I found the Waterside restaurant superiour to Plantation in every way. The food there was much better and the larger servery allowed for more choice. As a buffet style goes it was good, not fantastic (though the curries were) with plenty of choice. I prefer Princess but It costs so much more. OV is incredible value overall and I urge people to enjoy it before we lose it to Australia 09/10. You can read my recent review dated 15th Nov. I returned from barbados on 11th nov.